NETWORKING

WAN observability with agents running in the cloud “Do not try this at home!” It’s the all too familiar warning you may have heard way too many times while growing up. Perhaps when watching an Evil Knievel stunt. Or, seeing the antics of Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O on MTV’s Jackass series. (Seriously, do not try any of that at home.) Instead, try observing the performance of the network between your home Internet connection and another…

As we head towards Cisco Partner Summit in a few weeks, (I hope you have registered already) it is a great time to look at how the Cisco Partner ecosystem is using not only technology but also innovation, agility and customer centric thinking to ensure that businesses of all sizes across the region are finding new ways to meet the evolving customers needs.    It is this mindset that makes our Partner Innovation Challenge so special….

You may be considering applying zero trust principles across your organization, but are unclear on where to start or how changes will impact the user experience. We had these considerations in mind as Cisco IT moved from a traditional model of perimeter and VPN security to a model based on zero trust. Our goal was to improve security and create a better access experience for our 100,000+ users. We explored many questions in our journey…

Back in December of 2019, we made a bold announcement about how we’ll forever change the economics of the internet and drive innovation at a speed like no one had ever seen before. Since then, we’ve been very busy. In October of 2020, we announced six new devices, and in March of 2021, we announced the addition of three new devices, including our first 25.6 Tbps web scale switching device. Today, less than seven months…

It’s not every day you get to work on products that continue to evolve so quickly that before you finish talking about one device the next generation comes out. However, with Cisco Silicon One™ that’s exactly what we’ve done. We recently announced our 19.2 Tbps P100 piece of routing silicon and I wanted to spend some time going over what it means from a system perspective. Cisco Silicon One P100—In a class of its own…

Open RAN is a push for industry standards in the design of gear that’s used in the radio-access segment of telecom cellular networks and is particularly relevant to the buildout of 5G infrastructure. Radio-access networks (RAN) serve to connect the base stations that transmit and receive traffic to from endpoints like cell phones and laptops and provide the link toward the carrier core network. Without standards, wireless equipment vendors designing their RAN gear don’t have…

The Transformational Tech series highlights Cisco’s nonprofit grant recipients that use technology to help transform the lives of individuals and communities. With widespread school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital divide widened for children who lack access to the internet or electronic devices. A report from the International Telecommunication Union and UNICEF shows that two-thirds of the world’s school-age children — or 1.3 billion children, aged 3 to 17 years old — do not have an…

It’s with great pleasure that I can today share Cisco’s intent to acquire replex GmbH, a privately held enterprise software company based in Germany.  The acquisition of replex will help AppDynamics grow its product and engineering talent with a view toward accelerating and expanding product capabilities that observe enterprise-scale, cloud-native environments. Replex’s deep expertise in Kubernetes, real-time data extraction and analytics will further strengthen AppDynamics’ world-class product and engineering team as we accelerate the delivery of Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability vision.   Over the last 12 months, I’ve talked about the importance of full-stack observability in solving some…

On May 12, President Biden signed a cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) aimed at improving efforts to “identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to these actions and actors”. The order aims to improve federal security practices and threat intelligence sharing amongst federal agencies and the private sector; enhance software supply chain security, and improve federal security incident response. The impact of this order will ultimately extend beyond federal agencies, impacting vendors who directly support the…

I grew up in a ravishingly small village in Gujarat, India named Vekariya. My parents were farmers, and I was going to a rural private school where my teachers found me as a bright student. I eventually left school to take up the responsibility of caring for my younger brother, doing house chores, and cooking at the age of seven. All of this, while helping my parents on the farm. After a few days of…